Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2008. He climbed onto one of them and when she realized what was expected of her Martha got up on the other and they rode out to find the horses. This is a good read! Of course most outfits had fifty or sixty horses back then so there was plenty of work, and when the war came on, no men to get it done. She was making her slow way through Black Beauty, a page or two at a time, too tired most nights to read for very long. It's a beautiful story of independence and the connections that knit together families and communities. She knew the hard part wasn’t climbing onto a horse for the first time and a decent working horse might take a year or two to truly finish, and she thought George Bliss must know this too. Learn more about the program. She was already scarred when I got her.” “Are you breaking her for somebody?” “No sir, she’s mine, I got her off a man who thought she was spoiled. This breakout novel from the author of The Jump-Off Creek tells the heartwarming story of a determined young woman with a gift for gentling wild horses. When George Bliss came into the kitchen she saw he had hung his hat on a peg on the back porch and so she stepped back out and found a peg for her own hat there.
“Well of course every man in this part of the world is wearing overalls and an old brown coat,” she said, “but I guess it was George Bliss who is my husband and I am Louise Bliss.” She then started right in telling Martha how they were Old Oregonians, both she and her husband, children of first comers, and how this house they were sitting in had been built from trees cut and milled right here on the ranch by her husband’s daddy right after the Indians were driven off, and how her own granddaddy had fought in the Civil War and then come up to Oregon with one of the first big trail drives out of Texas and bought half a dozen cows with his wages, and by the time he died owned almost two hundred head of cattle and eight hundred acres of Baker Valley pastureland. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. Click or Press Enter to view the items in your shopping bag or Press Tab to interact with the Shopping bag tooltip. There was turnip and carrot in the soup and a chicken may have run through the pot on its way to somewhere else, or more likely this was one of the meatless days that had become patriotic in the last few months. But at the same time these people are going through birth, death, love, cruelty, honesty and dishonesty and muddling their way along in the eternal way of things. Molly Glosss affecting fourth novel turns the Western genre on its head with a woman as the mysterious stranger appearing on horseback, but Gloss is known for her independent, self-sufficient heroines. I liked the way the author made you feel the simultaneous distance and heaviness that World War I had in this. by Houghton Mifflin. AudioFile, ©1997-2020 Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Inc. 122 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011. We gradually sink into their hopes and fears just as Martha does, with startling, intimate glimpses into the loneliness some of these people endure. Please try again. They were usually alone, those girls, but it wasn’t like in the moving pictures or the gunslinger novels, the female always in peril. She had a cowboy’s disregard for mulesa mule lacked the dignity and honorableness of a horse was one of the things she believed. Martha is responsible for getting Al Logerwell fired for beating horses. But, the story about a sensitive young horse woman, Martha Lessen, and her passion for horses is beautifully written and touched MY heart! I never would have looked twice at this book, had I not heard the author speak at MPIBA. Welcome to this group of horse lovers seeking an holistic approach to caring for their equine friends. Gruel, South Carolina, in search of glory, seclusion, money, revenge, and a meaningful existence. The winter before, there had been a string of about a hundred days when the temperature never rose above freezing and some countiesElwha, Umatilla, Granthad piled up seven feet of snow.
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